On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Clemens Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > > - homebrew doesn't try as hard as MacPorts to make builds reproducible. > If you install vim, it'll use the first python available. When that's > system python it uses that, if it's homebrew python it'll use that (and if > its MacPorts python, well you get the idea) > > I'm pretty sure they consider this a strength. "I already have Python! > Why is MacPorts trying to install a new version!?" They *used* to consider that a feature, and are still slowly changing things over; they've learned the hard way why nobody else works that way. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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